Monthly Update

Printed on February 18, 2015
RBC U.S. Equity Fund (US$)
No. of Funds in Category
N/A
Fund Category
US Equity
Morningstar Rating™
QQQ
Investment Objective
Portfolio Analysis as of January 31, 2015
To provide long-term capital growth by investing in
equity securities of U.S. companies to provide broad
exposure to economic growth opportunities in the U.S.
market.
Asset Mix
% Assets
Cash
1.6
Fixed Income
0.0
Canadian Equity
0.1
US Equity
96.7
International Equity 1.6
Other
0.0
Fund Details
Series
Load Structure
Currency
Fund Code
A
I
No Load
No Load
USD
USD
RBF449
RBF245
Equity Style
Income Distribution
Capital Gains Distribution
Annually
Annually
Sales Status
Min. Investment $
Subsequent Investment $
Open
500
25
Management Company
RBC Global Asset
Management Inc.
www.rbcgam.com
Web Site
Notes
Minimum investment for Series I units of the Fund is
$200,000. Minimum additional investment is $5,000.
Please note the “Since Inception” rate of return includes
data from October 1972 only.
Equity Statistics
P/B Ratio
P/E Ratio
2.6
17.6
Avg. Mkt Cap. $B
63.7
Small
July 1966
3,648.9
25.09
2.11
S&P 500 Total Return
Index (US$)
Large Mid
Inception Date
Total Fund Assets $Mil
Series A NAV $
Series A MER %
Benchmark
Top 10 Holdings
% Assets
Apple Inc
Microsoft Corp
General Dynamics Corp
Wells Fargo & Co
UnitedHealth Group Inc
3.5
2.5
1.5
1.4
1.4
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class B
Citigroup Inc
Bank of America Corporation
Eli Lilly and Co
Intel Corp
1.4
1.3
1.3
1.3
1.2
Total % of Top 10 Holdings
Total Number of Stock Holdings
Total Number of Bond Holdings
Total Number of Other Holdings
Total Number of Holdings
16.9
327
0
1
328
Value Blend Growth
Global Equity Sectors
% Equity
Information Technology
Health Care
Financials
Industrials
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Utilities
Materials
Unclassified
Telecommunication Services
20.3
15.9
14.5
13.7
11.7
9.9
6.4
5.6
2.1
0.0
0.0
Performance Analysis as of January 31, 2015
18
16
14
Growth of $10,000
Series A
$15,212
12
10
8
6
20
0
Calendar Returns %
Series A
-20
-40
-60
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
YTD
5.5
—
11.3
—
15.8
—
-40.2
—
24.0
—
10.4
—
-6.4
—
10.9
—
26.5
—
6.9
—
-2.6
—
Fund
Quartile
1 Mth
3 Mth
6 Mth
1 Yr
3 Yr
5 Yr
10 Yr
Since Incep. Trailing Return %
-2.6
—
—
-1.4
—
—
2.0
—
—
8.4
—
—
11.7
—
—
9.6
—
—
4.5
—
—
6.1
—
—
Fund
Quartile
No. of Funds in Category
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RBC U.S. Equity Fund (US$)
Management Overview
Manager Bios
Performance Analysis Cont'd as of January 31, 2015
Ray Mawhinney
Distributions ($)/Unit
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
Total Distributions
Interest
Dividends
Capital Gains
Return Of Capital
Ray Mawhinney is Senior Vice President, U.S. and Global
Equities. He has been in the investment industry since
1984.
YTD*
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
—
—
—
—
—
3.02
—
—
3.02
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Stuart Morrow
Ended
1 Yr
Ended
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
Best/Worst Periods %
Stuart is a Portfolio Manager for U.S. Equities and leads
the Global Analyst Team. He started at RBC in 1998.
Stuart briefly left RBC Global Asset Management to join
another firm as a Sell-Side Analyst, returning in March
2008 as a Senior Financial Analyst; he was promoted to
Manager, Global Equity Research in 2009. Stuart holds
the CFA designation.
7-1997
3-2000
Best
45.3
2-2009
3-2003
Worst
-43.7
Average
7.0
No. of Periods
289
Pct. Positive
74.4
* Distributions are characterized into income type at year-end.
3 Yr
Ended
5 Yr
Ended
10 Yr
21.4
-17.2
6.0
265
73.6
3-2000
2-2009
18.1
-6.1
5.5
241
69.7
9-2000
8-2010
12.5
-3.3
4.7
181
85.1
Quarterly Commentary as at December 31, 2014
RBC U.S. Equity Fund US$ (Series A) gained 2.4%
in Q4, compared to 4.9% for its benchmark.
Strength in the U.S. gathered momentum over the
year, offsetting a sluggish global economy, after a
weak start to 2014 due to colder-than-usual
weather in the eastern U.S. The quickening U.S.
economy was marked by improved consumer
spending and employment growth, which
prompted the U.S. Federal Reserve to conclude its
program of extraordinary economic stimulus,
known as quantitative easing, and pave the way
for higher benchmark interest rates sometime in
2015. Inflation stayed low, holding down
borrowing costs, and oil prices dropped fast and
far, providing a lift to U.S. consumers as the
holiday shopping season got underway. In this
environment, large-cap stocks outperformed
smaller-capitalization issues.
selection in the Consumer Discretionary, Health
Care, and Financial sectors, along with a lack of
relative exposure to the Information Technology
sector, which performed well. Part of the
underperformance in stock selection can be
attributed to significant rotation within these
sectors. On the positive side, the Fund benefited
from below-benchmark exposure to the Energy,
Telecommunication Services and Basic Materials
sectors, as all three underperformed the broader
market.
The Fund’s underperformance was due to stock
The portfolio manager remains somewhat
optimistic about U.S. equity markets in 2015 in an
environment of rising corporate earnings, low
inflation and falling commodity prices for the
foreseeable future. However, valuations for U.S.
companies are near fair value, suggesting more
moderate equity returns and greater volatility than
we have seen in recent years.
Major Buys
Major Sells
Advance Auto Parts
Kraft Foods
Oracle Corp
Ross Stores
United Technologies
Con-Way Inc.
Dow Chemical
IBM
McDonalds Corp
Netflix
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RBC U.S. Equity Fund (US$)
Disclosure
RBC Funds, PH&N Funds and RBC Corporate
Class Funds are offered by RBC Global Asset
Management Inc. and distributed through
authorized dealers.
Commissions, trailing commissions,
management fees and expenses all may be
associated with mutual fund investments.
Please read the prospectus or Fund Facts
document of the mutual fund before
investing. Except as otherwise noted, the
indicated rates of return are the historical
annual compounded total returns including
changes in unit value and reinvestment of all
distributions and do not take into account
sales, redemption, distribution or optional
charges or income taxes payable by any
unitholder that would have reduced returns.
Mutual funds are not guaranteed or covered
by the Canadian Deposit Insurance
Corporation or by any other government
deposit insurer.
For money market funds, there can be no
assurances that the fund will be able to
maintain its net asset value per unit at a
constant amount or that the full amount of
your investment in the fund will be returned
to you. The value of mutual funds change
frequently and past performance may not be
repeated.
This document has been compiled by RBC
Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM)
from sources believed to be reliable, but no
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or any other person as to its accuracy,
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judgment as of the date of this document, are
subject to change without notice and are
provided in good faith but without legal
responsibility. The Top Ten/25 Holdings may
change due to ongoing portfolio transactions
within the fund. The prospectus, Fund Facts
document, and other information about the
underlying investment funds are available at
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MER (%) for RBC Funds and PH&N Funds is
based on actual expenses for the full-year
period, January 1 to December 31, 2014,
expressed on an annualized basis.
MER (%) for RBC Corporate Class Funds is
based on actual expenses for the half-year
period April 1, 2014 to September 30, 2014,
expressed on an annualized basis.
Graphs are only used to illustrate the effects
of the compound growth rate and do not
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investment of any fund.
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Quartile rankings are determined by
Morningstar Research Inc., an independent
research firm, based on categories
maintained by the Canadian Investment
Funds Standards Committee (CIFSC). Quartile
rankings are comparisons of the performance
of a fund to other funds in a particular
category and are subject to change monthly.
The quartiles divide the data into four equal
segments expressed in terms of rank (1, 2, 3
or 4). This is the Morningstar quartile ranking
of Series A units of the Fund as of December
31, 2014. Morningstar ratings are overall
ratings reflecting risk adjusted performance
as of December 31, 2014. The ratings are
subject to change every month. The ratings
are calculated for funds with a minimum of 3
years of performance, calculated from the
funds' 1 and 3 year average annual returns
measured against a 91-day Treasury Bill
return with appropriate fee adjustments. The
top 10% of the funds in a category receive 5
stars (high); if the funds fall in the next
22.5%,they receive 4 stars (above average); a
place in the middle 35% earns a fund 3 stars
(neutral or average); those in the next 22.5%
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